Today With Sean O Rourke Friday 7 February 2014

Today with Sean O'Rourke

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Body found in London

Police in London say they believe a body found in Leicester Square in the city yesterday is that of the missing student Patrick Halpin.

The 18 year old from Loughrea in County Galway left a nightclub near Leicester Square to get food but did not return to his hotel in the Bloomsbury area of the city. Joining me now is Niall O’Sullivan a reporter with the Irish Post Newspaper in London.

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Sinn Fein Ard Fheis

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International Airlines Group

Commanding the skies may sound like the job of a deity, but Willie Walsh can boast to being the man in charge of hundreds of planes that take off and land every minute of every day.

Starting off as a pilot, he was head of Aer Lingus for a time, and he is now at the helm of one of the world’s largest airline groups. Not only that, but he is the incoming Chair of the new Board of the National Treasury Management Agency.

ATM Raid

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Anglo Trial

Sean was joined on the line by Fergal Keane who gave us the latest from the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court where the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank and two former Anglo executives are charged with providing unlawful financial assistance to 16 people to buy shares in the bank.

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How To Age

The life expectancy of the human race is increasing. With every passing generation, there is the promise of living longer, staying healthy for longer and being around to see not only grandchildren, but great grandchildren.

But as society becomes more obsessed with fighting wrinkles and denying old age, it might be questioned whether living longer is really a blessing or just a lengthening of the agonising over every grey hair and liver spot.

Anne Karpf is the author of a new book called ‘How to Age’ and she jspoke to Sean this morning.

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Gathering

The week gone by has been water-logged for residents in many parts of the country – and we’ll discuss that in a few minutes – but the news agenda has been marked on the political front by the fall-out from the appearance of Panti on the Saturday night show; by a drinking game that has claimed lives; and by the scathing report issued by the UN on the Catholic Church’s handling of child abuse.

For a look back at these stories, Sean was joined in studio by Independent Senator Ronán Mullen; by Irish Independent Columnist, Martina Devlin and by NUI Maynooth Climatologist, Professor John Sweeney.